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April 4, 2017 09:46 pm GMT

Samsung's Tizen OS for smart devices has devastating security holes, report says

It's bad when a security researcher finds a critical security flaw in your software. But when he finds about 40—all of them critical? Well, then you might consider rewriting the entire thing from scratch. 

That's exactly what's happening to none other than Samsung and its Tizen operating system, which the company uses on a number of its devices, including phones, smartwatches, and smart TVs. 

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Israeli security researcher Amihai Neiderman laid out the numerous, previously unknown security flaws in Tizen in a report detailed at Kaspersky's Security Analyst Summit at St. Marteen Monday. Neiderman claims all of the holes he found are critical and would allow hackers to control a Samsung device remotely.  Read more...

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